The Lord our righteousness. Considered in two discourses preached before the University of Oxford, March 20, 1757; in the morning at St. Mary's, and in the afternoon at St. Peter's. By William Romaine, ... 1757

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religious affairs. All that we are, and:

- .. uprightly, wth God, rand the divine laty 2

And law and juſtice may ſeize upon us, an

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auc man, this is the eſtabliſhed ſenſe of

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ſhall underſtand the uſage of the word

that we hope for is God's free gift, and ther
ſore as the Lord and giver. of all he hns-:
unalienable right to our contiuudl fer\
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juſt and good-law; to 2 he require
the perfect unintertupted obedience of ever
faculty of foul and body. If nan bad pa
it him in word and deed; then

would have been uſt — he would have de:

juſtice would Have had nodetandsupon hi
Hut if we pay it not. then we are unjuſt; an
__ _ the law for: the firſt offenoe pronouncrs
_ gurſes. upon us: for it is Written, ( Curſt
WW. every one: who continueth- not in
*. things, that are written in the book «<
*;the jaw If we continbe :r:ndt in
things, a ee Bil but in one point, Then
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enſt us into priſon, until the uttermoſt fa
5 he ic which it is i we ſhou
ever pay, becauſe the obetlience of millio
" ofiyears: could make no ſati faction for on
ingle tranſgteſſiob againſt the infinitely x

ſect law of God. One tranſgreſſion having

infinite demerit init, would weigh down th
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leſs * znfinittly perfect obedience, which

pon this ate of the caſe it appears, that
——— ſignifies the moſt ſtrict and
unerrin ce in our dealings with. God.
The e which is his revealed will,
1 obedience, is holy as
is fectly, infinitely holy.
It cannot behold the leaſt iniquity, 3 more
than God can behold it, and therefore it
cuts the ſinner off from all right and title to
legal eſs for the very firſt offence,
puts him under. the curſe, nd ſubjects him
to all its. pains" and penalties: And
whom the law pronounces its curſes, —
the | s judge will pour down the
vials: of his wrath. Upon the
be will rain ſnares, fire be thi por ſtorm
and tem this ſhall be to
drigk pad and ever, ' Lent
Are you then, my brethren, in the num-
ber of 1 or of the unrighteous?
IE it not of infinite —_— to know

what ſtate you are in? for
ſhould appear, that you are e

intereſt, as to chooſe to be ubjeet

curſes. of God's holy law, and a. ſuffer the

threatened py ment, if there be a way

left to eſcape: Do you ſee then, how nes

3 it is we ſhould as whether .
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have acted with: God or "noe
To the infallible word therefore, and to the
teſtimony let us repair. The oracles of truth
inform us, that after God had finiſhed his
fix days work, he looked down from hea-
ven and behold all things were good. There
was no diſorder in the natural world, and
no evil in the ſpiritual world. But he is
ſoon after repreſented looking down from
heaven upon the children of men, and be-
hold all things were evil. And God ſaw
de that the wickedneſs of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of
1 the thoughts of his heart was only evil con-
* tinually. (Gen. vi. 5.) Whence was the ori-

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gether corrupt, and were become abominable,
there was none of them righteons, no not one:
What! Not one righteous man left upon

earth No. God declares by the mouth

ophet, that there was not one.
ſinned and come ſhort of the
rw Ga. They were by nature chil-

ham holy 2

dren of his wrath, through one man's diſo-

bedience; and they were ten times more

the children of wrath by actual guilt, and
being ſinners againſt God's s law, bech by na»
ture and by life, he hath ſhut them all up
under ſin, in a Nate of condemnation, re-

ſerving them to the judgment of the great
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gin of this univerſal A Mankind had gone
out of the way of righteouſneſs, they had bro-
ken the law, and had made themſelves alto-

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This is our condition. We are all un-
righteous: And we are without to
attain any righteouſneſs of our own : Be-
cauſe we are poor broken debtors, who have
nothing to pay. One offence: attaints our
blood; and renders us i of doing
any act, that will be deemed and valid
in the court of heaven, for this irreverſible
decree ſtands againſt us in the divine records
— The anrightes ſhall not FnDerit the "ONE
eee the moſtim-
portant and intereſting that can engage a ſin-
pers attention, concerning which every per-
ſon concerned about his eternal welfare, will
reaſon.in this manner, © I acknowledge the
«law of God, to be holy and good, but 1
* have broken it, and have robbed God of
4 his glory and the law of its honour. : I am
« unrighteous. As ſuch; heaven is ſhut
*- againſt me. And will be ſhut for ever,
e unleſs I can be made righteous. But ho
*.or by what means can this be done?
“ God's law is immutable. His truth that
* threatened to puniſh tranſgreſſion is in-
* flexible. His jule is infinite, and muſt
t have ſatisfaction for the broken law
yea, full and perfect ſatisfaction, ſui le
* to the infinite purity and holineſs of the
% divine. nature. But alaſs ! what ſatisfac-
* tion can I 4 Th it? Nay, what ſatisfac-

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by my

| þ > this manner every perſon ie « 2.
baut eternity would reaſon; When he is
convinced of his on unrighteouſneſs, he will
look out for ſome means to be made righteous,
and he will ſoon find that there are no hu-
man: means. Righteouſneſs grows not upon
this earth. It fled to heaven, when all the
world was brought in guilty before God,
And it cannot return to earth, until all the
offended attributes of God be fatisfied. But
what created': being can make a ſatisfaction
equal to the offence? All hope
g is cut off: for no finite creature can
gs OE Sr,
oes to a guilty
world. He ſees the —_—
dropping down rightcouſnets, and the .
opening and receiving it. The bleſſing is ſo
unmerited, ſo ineftimable, that one would
be tempted to aſł . How God could be ſo
gracious? How cam he exerciſe ſuch mercy

conifer with his other * _—_

humanly

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can he ſuffer the guilty to to be aca righ«
teous, until the demands of law and juſtice
be fully fatisfied?. But here is the ſatisfaction

equal to their infinite demands? and until

ſuch a ſatisfaction be paid, how can his all-

pure holineſs look upon the impure ſinner, « 4*

or how can his inflexible truth, which threat-
ned puniſhment, remit it? Glory be to his

free grace, which hath found out a righteouf- |

neſs for us, againſt law and juſtice can-

ed the
violate, and that is the righteouſneſs an the
| God-man Chriſt Jeſus. L
We are tauglit by the chuiſtian . that
in the divine en thete are three
of equal glory and majeſty, none is before or
after 9 or leſs than another.
Between theſe divine perſons the covenamt of
| 1 all things and ſure; and
this cbvenant the
hal three took the names of Father, 8 n, and
Holy Spirit. Son is 2 name of office, deſerip<

tive of :thewonderfulhiuniliation of the MeL

ſtah who took our nature, and was made a
ten for bur ſalvation — God and man

united in one Chriſt; as much as the reaſon⸗
able ſoul amd fleſh is one man. The God

man undertakes in our nature to pay perfect 85

ſatisfactiohlto his'father's juſtice. According -
ly he paid the law an infinitely. perfect
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inade it more honourable, than the obedience

of all created beings could have done, Then
he ſuffered what was due to our breach of
the law, and paid the death which we de-
ſerved. And juſtice demonſttated, that it
had no more demands upon D eben it

releaſed him from the e grave.
And b this obedience and theſe ſufferings he ä

out an infinitely perfect righteouſ-

neſs, which * Fr imputed to the unrighteous,
and laid hold o

Junior.

3 mill Babcait if he be ever diſ-
charged from condemnation. He muſt re-

out the leaſt merit or deſerving. And he

muſt truſt wholly to it, never preſuming to

add any thing of his own to it, as a-condi-

tion of juſtification.” - Theſerare turd lefians |
it i the hardeſt leflon of grace to humble us
fo far, that we can give up the merit of al!

to the ride of our

our fancied good works, and take the rig
oulneſs of God as a free gift. As if
righteouſneſt was not perfect enough, we

ate always thinking to add ſomething of our

own-to it. Our fallen nature is ever tempt-

ME poſed oe ann

has not offered us a more forcible:
throughout the ſcripture, than the

by the hand of faith, ren-
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beſtowed, -as theſe: ſutcet/ influences. of: Heal
ien art, i frech Ther earth has no hand,
no) merit; in bringing down the dew or the

min, not have we any in bringing down
ther ri of Chriſt. And the fruits,
which. the; rain and dew enable the carth-t6

forth; are urecdt by their
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the:ſuryz» forthe a paſſive and
inactive ad only acts as it is acted
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when Debüt the ſinner under a ſenſe of
his! unrighteouſneſs by nature and life, and
enables Him to wait at the- throne of grace

for a fret pardon, when God the Father ac-

him through the merits of his Son, and

jultiſies him, then it is the office of the Holy

Spirit to bear his teſtimony with the ſinner s
irit that he ista child of God; With the
of Juſtification thus evidenced.· and applied
he receives juſtifying faith, and is brought

into a ſtate of ſalvation: for the falvation- e

the” righteous? is of the Lord. There is no
falvation without righteouſneſs, and it is of
the Lord's — — that he is received as
nighteous, through che righteouſneſs of Chriſt
— to hi hor faith. - Chriſt's righteouſ-
neſs can be Alder ours only by wet a
As our ſins were actually imputed to
o his righteouſneſs is actually imputed to Us.
The Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us
all, and therefore he was 3 for our
and was bruiſed for our ini-
quities. As he thus took our ſins upon him
elf, ſo we by faith take his e Ur
on us, and by it are ſaved.

righteouſneſs; and the barren heart of finful
man has opened and received it, and with it
alvation, then together with falvation, the

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8 — it is mighty in operation to enable
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fruit. Righteouſheſs changes himę as much
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an-infinitely perfect and unſpotted rightrouſ-
neſs. When a mans able to create a plane-
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corruption and plagur of his own heart,
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his life 1s, any yet how corrupthisvery.beſt du-
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me to enlarge upon them at preſent. And
therefore leaving them for the ſubject of ano-
ther diſcourſe, I would only obſerve ho-
beautifully theſe great truths of the goſpel are
illuſtrated in the text.

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heavens from above, and let the ſkies pour
down righteouſneſs. And then the ſinner
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plain doctrine of God's — bg is the very
fundamental article of our eſtabliſhed church,
and is evident from daily and .
perience, and it is the firſt practi truth in
chriſtianity : for until we be deeply convinced
of our ſinfulneſs and helpleſſneſs, we ſhall ſee
U to apply to Chriſt for bis righteouſ-
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tual-ſickneſſes and maladies, and the ſcrip-
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neſs; | We have before, proved; fays:the
* apoſtle, both Jews: and Geptiles, that they
e are all under as it is written. There is
e none righteous, no not one.“ 80 ſays our
ninth article: By original ſin man is very
far gone from original righteouſneſs, and
< 'by it every perſon born into the world de-
e ſerveth God's wrath and damnation.” And
concerning our helpleſſneſs in this ſtate our
reformers in the ſecond part of the homily
On the miſery of — ſpeak the ſenſe of ſcrip-
ture in theſe words:

Thus we have heard, how * we be
4 of ourſelves, how of ourſelves, and by our
« ourſelves, we have no goodneſs, help. or
ee falvation, but contrariwiſe fin, damnation,
and death everlaſting : which if we deeply
« weigh and -conſider, we ſhall the hetter
e underſtand the great mercy of God, and
% how our ſalvation cometh only by Chriſt :
“for in ourſelves (as of ourſelves) we find
* nothing whereby we may be delivered from
* this miſerable captivity, into the which we
are caſt, through the envy of the deyil by
« breaking of God's commandment in our
« firſt parent Adam. We are all become un-
* 1 but we all are nat able to cleanſe

«' ourſelves, | nor make one another of us
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an which be fo imperfect and impate that
they are not able to Hand Before the rigb-
* "cous judgment- eat af God, às the holy
e prophet David faith,” Enter hot into judg.
05 ment with thy ſervant O Lord, for no
te man that liveth ſhall be found righteous ig
*. thy nght. To Gd cherefore mult we flee,
ce or elſe ſhall we never find peace, reſt, and
* jetnefs of conſeience in our Hearts.
us far our reformers. To the truth
of their words we have all ſet our hands,
may God ſet our hearts to act agrerably
to our ſubſcriptions.” Though they were
ur own act and deed, yet it is a matter of
fat, which cannot be Sandee nor too
much lamented, that 3 act di-
realy contra to theit emn engage-
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pulpit Toh original ſin,
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declares | that the, natural mam receiveth not
the things of the ſpirit of God, nor while he
eorftinues a natural man gan he know them,
let him pretend to reaſon ever ſo — about
them? Have you not heard men laviſh- in

the pralſes of the dignity. of human nature,

which if God's account of human nature be
true, is an gnrighteous dignity? What is a
more common topic, than to cry up moral
rectitude, which if ſcripture be true is an

unrighteous rectitude, a to recommend |

Practical duties as terms of ; juſtification,
which is ſetting —— the pine of
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1 has not the rain in itſelf, but receives

from the fruitful influence of the heavens,

O the barren wilderneſs of man s heart has no
"righteouſneſs, until the Holy Spirit bring it

from above: For it is his office to convince
the finner of his unrighteouſneſs, and then
to convince him of 8— by giving
Him faith to apply to himſelf that divine
righteouſneſs, which Chriſt aa 0c out *
** juſtification and ſal vation
If any member of our church: thinks this

e wanting in point of evidence, let
him conſult the articles and homilies; words
cannot be plainer, than thoſe are in the be

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7 „Gods "own Hands, chat is to {ay "the for-

he of bis fins and træIpäfſes, in ſuch

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* 7 rebeive of Gods mercy and Chriſts
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prayers are an — pie — fancied
good works are nothing but ſin. S0 ſays the
ſcripture, * Whatfoever- is not of faith is fin.”
So ſays our church in her articles; * Works
done before the grace of Chriſt and the i in-
Acfpirationof7his ſpirit, are not pleaſant »
Me God, neither do they make Shen meet
receive grace Yea rather, fot that they
&:lare not dony} as God hath wilſed and co.
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un but they have the nature of ſin. We
doubt not but the beſt of them are only ſo
ſins They may adorn'a'than's
outivartbconverſaiong may gum him the ho-
nour of men, but in the eyes of God
are of no price: becauſe they flow from a
u e heart. So that works done be-
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1. Juſtifieation is not the office of man, but
f God: for man cannot make himfelf
E: righteous dy tis own works, neither in
. part nor in r for that were the
ſtarr preſumption of man,
« Tut anti — 1 10 ſt God, to

1 affirm, that a man Own works
* ee, 1 OW ſins, and

«juſtify himſelf, But juſtification is the
4 fice of God only, and is not a thing Which
* we render unto him, but which we receive
* of him: not which we give to him, but
«which we take of him b his free mer a
1 and by the only merits of his maſt dear
* beloved ſon, our only redbetner, aol
1 and juſtifjer, Jefus Ch

In the following part of the fame homily
1 —
7 of this apes poſition

* W . faith in Chriſt
* only, "76 this , We 155 our Faith in Chriſt,
Wy that-we be juſti him only, that we

* be juſtified Wen and the
* nierits of our Saviour Chriſt only, and by
16. no virtue or works of our own, that
te is in us, Ef rods can be able to have,
* ar to do, for to deſerve the ſame: Chrilt
* himſelf only being the Cauſe meritorioug |
t thereof“

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excluded, both by ſcripture and by the au-
thorkty of dur own church, how is this righ-

teouſneſs

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teouſneis to be attained? The prophet teaches

us in the oth We receive, it as the thi
ground does the rain. Can we dg any thing
towards bringing down the gentle dew, or
bh Fray 0 bh heayen? When the earth
is parched and burnt up. gan e command

the clouds aboye to deſcend and ſaturate the
thicſty ſoil? No, Me are not equal to theſe
things: any more, than we, can bring down
75 righteouſneſs of Chriſt When ws pleaſe.
It 1s God's to give, ours to receive, as the dry

1 does the rain. W hen God urs
Toh from on high abundance of, ai done
neſs, what can we do but .receiye.it, as a free
gift, and be thankful? This is the main point,
and much ſtreſs ſhould be laid upon it. We
all want righteouſneſs alike, being all alike
finners, Chriſt has infinite and perfect xigh-
teouſneſs to give, and when we deſire it, we
ſhould be ſure to ſeek. it in the way wherein
God has appointed to beſtow it. Now he
always beſtows it freely — not upon thoſe
who merit it, for then it would not be free —
Merit and free grace are oppoſites, but he be-
Rows it upon | EM and ungodly.
He beſtows it upon them who want it moſt,
and who are ſenſible they can do the leaſt to
attain it. If then you deſire righteouſneſs, go

as unrighteous and ungodly to the Lord Je-

ſus, and he will cloath you with his all- perfect
righteouſneſs. He requires no qualification,

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If you: are ſnfible of your wants, that is a,
prevailing motive enough with him to ſup 2
ply them. To find that you want right
neſs, is'the:proper way and means to attain
i Hear What your God promiſes you
©Blefled are they who hung r and thirſt after |
«.cighteouſnd{ : for they Hall be filled
Ye ſhall be filed, with it, becauſe ye hünger
and thirſt lter it, pot beeguſe ye deſerve it.
md have mierited it by your gd Works, but
bebauſe: yo ars made ſenfiblethit"yon' Carts,
notudeſerve!rimerit it. "TW the e
bliſhed' meth6&:df God's pres
nfilleth ehalchnnghlp- witty gbd +Hirips,” but
© the:rich:phariite; he ſendeth einpty away
—He en de ene hunger thirſt fc
righteouſneſs withythe good things of grace, *
anch drith 'the-beft things of 2ldey. = but he?
ſendeth him, hö 890 Lam ieh, and —
creaſsd with good goods, and habe need of hething?
ſucha proud phar ie he feet empty a way.
—— x ly difficult t61conyince tijeh,” .
that this is the oel wehe ß fa
Their pride wilt not ſubmit to it Ho not
be ſaded by the righteouſnſꝭ of God they
wilktry; eben after they. are eomvificed of the”
neceſſity of God's 7 to add ſome .
thing of their On to it. T Heir Tolle oncelk
of themſelves wyunt let them ſeel Roꝰ·˖ nuten
their natur is corrupted, and ahi corfu
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tes tq heaven: for avit eckines'
fron God, t will carry us up to God. It
will not remain in us as a dead and barren
principle, but will make us fruitſul in good
works, even that we may be filled with the
fruits of righteonſneſß, Which ate by. Jeſus
Chriſt, —— D 1 +
Father. This is the of the |
doQtrine, and it is alſo the Ne eine af:bet *
ckhureh. We read in the firſt Part. of the

bomily upon faith, & That as the light can- 5 9
% got be hid, but will ſhew forth itſelf at |
ne or another: '{o:a true falth cans |
* not be kept ſecret, but when occaſiom is
*' offered; it will break out, and ſhew itſelf
«by: good works. And as the living body
* of a man ever exerciſeth ſuch things as be-
long to a natural and — body, for nou-
riſhment and of the ſame, as

* it hath need, o ity, and occaſion,
5; — ghar hd «lively fan

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7. corabendetions of faith; that it maketh us
to pleaſe God, tolive with God, and to be |
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3 works, and may live as they li
they triſſe with God, and deceive them

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ably — of ſcripture, deſcribing it to
de an active operative grace, producing all
Bis ig und ripe fraits of an holy life — Theſe
flow as conſtantly from it, as light does from
the ſun. If any man ſays he hath this faith,
and does not make it manifeſt by theſe fruits,
he deceiveth himſelf, and the truth is not in
him. His faith is dead. It is no better than

what the devils have, and unleſs it pleaſe

| which the tent offered to. —
and I hope, my brethren, they have appeared
to you with convincing evidence. The pre-
ſent and the eternal welfare of your own
ſouls, as well as of theirs which are com-
mitted to your care, require you to meditate
(ſeriouſly upon this fundamental *
— RAS Our whole religion —_—
on this great truth, that the ——
which we ſinners are as righteous at
the bar of juſtice is not our own, butChriſt's—
whollywrought out for us by his obedience and
ſufferings, and received of us by faith with-
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doctrine. If any man can read them with-
on con7 ped, ofthe Argh, EM he is

each of argument. When the
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was fallen into the damnable doctrine of
works being meritorious towards our j
which is the ground-work of all

cation,
their groſs hereſies and ſuperſtitions, it pleaſed

God to raiſe up the reformers, who la
chiefly to overthrow this fundamental .
and he bleſt their labours with ſucceſs.

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reached unto this land. Our church was
happily reformed, as from all the errors f
Popery, fo from the doctrine of the merit of $

works in particular. Long it ſtood u

the Oey of the reformation, and

principles glory be to God's good provi-

in our articles, 2

the truth of it, and

.and _— But where elſe ſhall we find
them? Who maintains them ? Who writes,

who preaches in their defence? Alaſs, they

who ſhould be their friends, betray them:
for is there a more
than that good works are the terms of our

received opinion

acceptance with God? Is not natural religion

founded upon this 2 And fo far as
men build upon it, they depart from the
great doctrine of the ——.—— and return
back to popery. Is * our religious ſitua-

tion,

church — in t is ſound and beſt chnſtituted
che upon earth, too many of her ſons
RN Ne NE. to the tdofring,
upon which thi was eftablithed.” When we
are. do g and falli 0 tay

'our fi princi een Wine nas

5 0: call upon my as chriſtian men

\ "brace, and as members of our e th
, defend them. Whoever amongſt us ſeeks
jultißcation through Chriſt's righteouſnek,
cannot be offerided at what 1 have faid —
and L would offend thoſe, who ſeek for julti-
\Keatjort without ©Chriſt's righteouſnefl. 1
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1 "If the ey reſt their own righteouſneſs, 7
ane loſt for ever. If chere be truth in God —
"If there be any teliance his word, there
1 no righteouſneſs but Chriſt's, wherein ſin-
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